DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Development Operations Engineer
South London > Croydon

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Croydon is £566, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 14 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 22 15 16
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 24.18% 13.27% 9.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 25.00% 13.64% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 15
10th Percentile £516 - £460
25th Percentile £550 £538 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £540 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £615 £565 £656
90th Percentile £633 £605 £675
South London median daily rate £566 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +4.78% -6.09% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Croydon with a recognized job title 88 110 167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.70% 97.35% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 71 119
10th Percentile £320 £380 £231
25th Percentile £467 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £539
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +0.19% -3.41%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £673
South London median daily rate £503 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £66.00 £19.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +238.46% -55.51% -0.62%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Croydon

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Croydon

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Croydon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Croydon region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Croydon - 3 £533 - 2
DevOps Engineer
South London

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Croydon region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (95.45%) SC Cleared
2 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
3 16 (72.73%) AWS
3 16 (72.73%) Docker
4 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
5 12 (54.55%) Amazon S3
5 12 (54.55%) Python
6 11 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (50.00%) Azure
6 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (50.00%) Terraform
7 10 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (45.45%) Git
7 10 (45.45%) JIRA
8 9 (40.91%) Confluence
8 9 (40.91%) Grafana
8 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
8 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
8 9 (40.91%) LDAP
8 9 (40.91%) Linux
8 9 (40.91%) Prometheus
8 9 (40.91%) SQL
8 9 (40.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (36.36%) Amazon ELB
9 8 (36.36%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (36.36%) AWS Certification

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (40.91%) Confluence
2 8 (36.36%) nginx
3 3 (13.64%) MQSeries
4 1 (4.55%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 11 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (50.00%) Azure
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (40.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 8 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (36.36%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (36.36%) AWS KMS
6 8 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (36.36%) Route 53
7 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (18.18%) Serverless
8 3 (13.64%) GCP
9 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (4.55%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) DNS
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
1 8 (36.36%) FTP
1 8 (36.36%) HTTP
1 8 (36.36%) IMAP
1 8 (36.36%) OpenLDAP
1 8 (36.36%) SMTP
1 8 (36.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (13.64%) Redis
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (45.45%) Git
1 10 (45.45%) JIRA
2 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
3 8 (36.36%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 8 (36.36%) Presentation Skills
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) LDAP
2 5 (22.73%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) EDIFACT
3 3 (13.64%) JSON
3 3 (13.64%) Kafka
3 3 (13.64%) XML
4 2 (9.09%) boto
4 2 (9.09%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Ubuntu
2 8 (36.36%) VMS
2 8 (36.36%) Windows
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Change Management
3 8 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 8 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 8 (36.36%) Patch Management
3 8 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
3 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 5 (22.73%) Microservices
5 4 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (13.64%) Code Quality
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (13.64%) CQRS
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Domain-Driven Design
6 3 (13.64%) TDD
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (4.55%) Data Pipeline
8 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) SQL
3 8 (36.36%) Groovy
3 8 (36.36%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) Go
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) SC Cleared
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 8 (36.36%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
2 8 (36.36%) DFS Replication
2 8 (36.36%) Dovecot
2 8 (36.36%) Postfix
2 8 (36.36%) Squid
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (40.91%) Grafana
2 9 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 9 (40.91%) Prometheus
3 8 (36.36%) Nessus
3 8 (36.36%) Proxmox
4 2 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Jaspersoft
1 8 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.64%) Confluent